What is recorded here

Brickworks in Manusmore, a lost post-medieval clay site near Ennis, likely supplied the red walls of Manus House during the later eighteenth or earlier nineteenth century. The clay may have been dug from nearby fields, shaped into long rows, and baked until hard enough to carry the weight of a grand house. The road now passes above the place where that heavy, noisy work occurred, leaving no visible marker except the stones already built.

Excavation in 2004 (Licence no. 04E0188) in advance of the N18 Ennis bypass revealed evidence of a probable post-medieval brick-clamp. The clamp is possibly associated with the nearby Manus House as it has brickwork erected in the later 18th/earlier 19th centuries. (Hull 2007, 41; Bermingham, Hull and Taylor 2012, 91-3) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 20 July 2016

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